IT Strategy Advice

INTERPROM has been there for many of your CIO peers. To help with reorganizing IT departments, to build an IT strategy roadmap that leads to turning the table in your favor, to be your sounding board just when need that feedback the most, to provide you with that sanity-check and outsider perspective, etc.

INTERPROM’s trusted advisers have elevated dozens of IT executives’ and their business performance.

General IT Strategy

For a CIO, focusing on what matters, is a constant question that is on your mind. You have many stakeholders to please. And even when the picture is clear, you are now faced with prioritizing the use of your valuable resources. You can only “spend” your human, technical and financial capital ones. And when these resources and well-spend for the moment, your customer and shareholders is still not satisfied, since you have not provided them with “the next big thing” that will make them stand out. So, what is your strategy to deal with this ever-raising-of-the-bar? And how proactive and forward-focused is it? And do you feel that you and your team are ahead of the game? Or is more that you are frequently behind the curb?

The list of topics below that we advise on is far from complete. So please use it as a door-opener for an introductory conversation we gladly would have with you; in person, over the phone or over the Web.

Accelerating business performance with hybrid IT

Customer engagement as the top driver of competitive advantage

IT funding potholes

Getting ready for “IT everywhere”

Essentials for effective IT productivity

How to be a decisive leader

How IT leaders can stay current

Implementing strategic business relationship management

Interested? Follow the links below for more information or request a reference call with one of our satisfied customers!

People Strategy

As Jim Collins, the author of “Good to Great” has taught us, surrounding yourself with great people is the first step you take when turning your shop around to something that is great. Building such team may take time. And sometimes, not enough time is given to you. INTERPROM can help you with shortening this time. Our team members have been in your position and can relate. Each has worked for 30+ years in the IT industry and has led organizations of all sizes.

Another early-on step to take, that Jim Collins observed, was to ask the right questions. Are you, the CIO, asking the right questions? And where do you find the answers to these questions that you and your team are supposed to ask? Has the Internet become your main source of information?

While you may have found us online, INTERPROM’s in-person services have resulted in the highest customer satisfaction levels. We are not afraid to ask the tough questions. Or, provide you with the answers you didn’t want to hear as they may be tough to swallow. Having been in your shoes, you sometimes need a partner who is telling it like it is. And even better when it is backed with an actionable plan that elevates your business performance.

The list of topics below that we advise on is far from complete. So please use it as a door-opener for an introductory conversation we gladly would have with you; in person, over the phone or over the Web.

Fostering a culture of innovation

Creating a productivity culture

Hire for personality and train for skills

Transform difficult stakeholders into partners

Principles for high-performing IT

How to develop your IT high-potentials

Ways to keep customer-focused IT pros

How Cloud is changing the IT workforce

Delivering feedback is not a one-way street

Interested? Follow the links below for more information or request a reference call with one of our satisfied customers!

Process Strategy

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. It was Aristotle who taught us this. Long before there were process improvement frameworks such as ITIL, CMMI and COBIT, and ISO standards such as ISO 20000, ISO 15504 and ISO 38500. INTERPROM has led countless initiatives, projects and programs that left behind the foundations, the building blocks and the framework that allowed CIOs to flourish and organizations to thrive to performance levels that seemed out of reach.

Besides the repeatability and predictability, Aristotle’s wisdom is focusing on, he also emphasizes on the people-factor of “acts” and “habits” in his phrase. Jim Collins, the author of “Good to Great” refers to this “habit” as the Culture of Discipline.

Even when just on the surface, have you, as the CIO, it given any thought how to build this culture of habits as INTERPROM tends to call it? Or, maybe the first question should be, what is the culture that you are building in the first place?

Over the years, the dependency on IT has grown exponentially. And the end is not in sight. Repeatability and predictability of your IT service quality is what matters. Not to mention, the level of (future) enablement you are expected to offer to your service consumers.

The list of topics below that we advise on is far from complete. So please use it as a door-opener for an introductory conversation we gladly would have with you; in person, over the phone or over the Web.

Are you the CIO of an organization that has lots of management tools, but few are used, or benefited from to its fullest? Lindsay was implying that in many cases the reason behind this is the lack of process maturity. Tools and technology automates our work. When not having focused on process improvement, there is little to automate. No wonder, your tools are underutilized.

INTERPROM’s advice is vendor and tool-agnostic. We have no ties to any of the tool and technology vendors, solution providers, integrators, etc.

The list of topics below that we advise on is far from complete. So please use it as a door-opener for an introductory conversation we gladly would have with you; in person, over the phone or over the Web.

What enterprises want from outsourcing partners

Selecting enterprise software

Achieving Cloud Superiority

Move up to the cloud: say goodbye to traditional IT

Enterprise Mobility

Data stewardship models

Interested? Follow the links below for more information or request a reference call with one of our satisfied customers!

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